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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge 70

So this week's Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge is from WMS DT member Kelly Schirmer. She's a real sweetie and she's come up with a great sketch. So, as my boys played in the beautiful fall weather, mom got to work on 2 cards! Woohoo! (This is totally unusual for a slow poke like me btw) Here's this week's sketch...

This first card was inspired by the stamp of the Santa's sleigh silhouette. I got my stamp from A Muse, but there is a WMS version that you could do the same thing. The card is pretty self-explanatory, but there are a couple things that are hard to see in the pic. The house is fussy cut and popped up a bit. I cut out the window and put the yellow bit behind it for candle glow.

The moon is also cut out and popped up a tiny bit. I hit it with a little pearl dust for moon shine! The background is lots and lots of blending of almost every dark blue ink I had. Whew!

I embossed the "believe" sentiment and had lots of messy embossing (I guess I didn't wait long enough for the background to dry). This time, I actually like the messiness! And the base of the card is a sparkly paper from Mark's Finest Papers. It's so pretty and has a lovely sheen to it.

The next card was a real quickie and it's a bit cheeky. It's for a friend whose husband has literally had a mustache since 8th grade. We tease him about it, but give him a pass because 1) he looks weird without it and 2) we all grew up in the era of Magnum P.I. & Smokey and the Bandit and secretly like it;)

Of course, I had to use the WMS sentiment "hope it tickles" and my mistletoe stamp to go with the Christmas mustache theme. I don't have any mustache stamps, so I printed it off the web.

I die cut the circles and blended with Distress ink with the dies still on. This card just makes me giggle! Hope she likes it:) That's all for me for now! I'm off to try to get all this blue ink off my fingers. Thanks

11 comments:

OHHHHH, JJ! Do I ever love these!!!!!! That house card is so amazing, sooo sooo amazing! I just love how the window and the moon GLOW. Brilliant idea with this week's sketch!!!! It's like I can feel the winter chill! And that moustache card...with the mistletoe and the SENTIMENT! Cracking me up! That poor guy with the everlasting moustache, heeee! Awesome job this week. PS... I did not write this long comment just because you called me a sweetie. ((I do not take bribes.)) But it sure did make me SMILE :)!

Fabby cards!!And I have to admit...I had a similar vision using the cottage with the "flying Santa" and I love the way it turned out!!And that background is hard...mixing all the blues...whew!Love the mistletoe too...two fabby cards! :)

I didn't get a chance to comment on your cards last week but wanted you know I think they are awesome. The Believe card is so COOL. LOVE your background and how you did the house with windows that glow. Great take on the challenge--a well deserved Top Mouse Winner!

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